Hello Dr. H*, My name is S. Z. I am the Med-1 student you kicked out of the small group today for being 30 minutes late. The reason I was late was because the metro broke down (the yellow line and then the green line). However, you did not even give me ten seconds to ...
Dear Ms. N*, I wanted to stop by on Friday to talk to you about something after I gained the courage to actually speak up about it, but I couldn’t find you so I thought I’d send you this email. On Tuesday I was assigned to a staff who clearly was too busy and was not interested ...
(Note: This encounter took place in the context of a Medical Interpretation Appointment.) Mr. W is an elderly man currently enrolled in French classes, hoping that he will become more functionally independent as he improves. He frequently commented about forgetting what he would learn in class, explaining that his mind always wanders back to his family ...
Have you ever felt like you’re so rushed all the time that your mind becomes muddled and things slip through the cracks? I’m slowly learning to deal with this by applying a concept or rather a way of being known as mindfulness. Mindfulness can be defined in different ways. In the context of practice in ...
Time, and time again residents tend to give us, medical students, the same piece of invaluable advice: stay humble. On one occasion, one resident said: “when you’re on the wards, seeing one case after the next and making diagnoses, you’ll feel like god. That’s dangerous. So stay humble.” As a first year medical student, I ...
